Mary
Stephanie ("Steph") Stokes nee Turner

Character's Birthdate: In
the official books said to be Born:
1956, however this has now been revised and she was born
July 1953.

Probably the eldest of Alan Turner's
two children as when her brother
appeared
in
th
series
he was
a
undergraduate student.
However Steph's daughter Tricia would have already been born.

Character Married: ?? Stokes

Relatives: mother of Tricia
Stokes, daughter of Alan
Turner and probably his 1st wife Jill (played by Patricia
Maynard and appeared in the series around 1984-1986). She has a
brother Terence Turner (who appeared in Emmerdale in 1985-1986 and was
played by Stephen
Marchant. However this is the first time we have met
"Steph"

Steph arrived in early September 2002 and immediately made a lasting
impression on then son in law to be Marlon Dingle, by leaving him
flat on the floor. Steph had punched Marlon, thinking that he had
been cheating on Tricia with another girl. Tricia demanded her mother
leave, but Steph had driven all the way from London and wanted to
catch up with her shocked daughter.

Alan stepped in and said that his daughter Steph could stay with
him in the B&B for the night. But Steph decided to stay in the
village and eventually made up with her daughter, Tricia, whom she
had been fighting with because Tricia had caught her mother in bed
with her then boyfriend.

On the night before Tricia’s wedding to Marlon, Steph ended
up kissing Marlon. But in the end the wedding never happened and
Paddy and Emily ended up getting married.

Steph later started selling dodgy items to the villagers and blew
out most of the lights in the village, with her Christmas lighting
display. Steph started working with Rodney in the antiques barn,
but he was soon put out by her sales techniques. He said that she
couldn’t sell her gear in the barn, but was forced to offer
her a return to his business, after he wasn’t pulling in near
as many customers after she left.

STEPH'S dreams of a fabulous new life in the south of France are shattered
- in the back of a rubbish lorry.

Antiques dealer Steph is in her element after reaching a deal with
Rodney to share the £100,000 proceeds from a sale of a valuable
figurine he had found in a house clearance. The couple sleep together,
but in the morning Steph dumps him, leaving him very hurt.

Steph Stokes is lamenting her lost youth in Emmerdale tonight.
The scheming antiques saleswoman is miserable with the way her
life has turned out and wonders how she can reverse her fortunes.

Steph has lost some of her spark ever since she ruined her chances
of a lavish retirement in France. The conniving temptress nearly
conned boss Rodney Blackstock out of a fortune when she spotted some
pricey statuettes and planned to sell them and live off the money.

But Steph's decision to taunt arch enemy Nicola – Rodney's
daughter – cost her the dream, after the furious receptionist
accidentally smashed the statuettes in a rage.

And now, with her 50th birthday on the horizon, Steph confides in
father Alan Turner that she had hoped for more success in her life.
Concerned by her defeatist attitude, Alan decides to give his wayward
offspring a pep talk.

He urges her to follow her dreams and Steph – ever on the
lookout to improve her life – starts to believe that she can
make some big changes in her life.

THERE'S a medical emergency for Alan Turner when he collapses with
a suspected heart attack and has to be rushed to hospital.

His mean-spirited daughter Steph rushes into action as he’s
whisked off in an ambulance - but not to Alan’s bedside. Instead,
she hurries to check her father’s will and is horrified to
discover she’s not in it!

It’s Marlon who goes with Alan in the ambulance to the hospital
- where it turns out Alan hasn’t had a heart attack - while
Steph stays behind.

She has more important matters to attend to . . . searching through
her dad’s papers to find his life insurance and his will!

She is furious to find she’s being left nothing and vows to
Shelly that she will keep her father alive long enough to get the
will changed.

“The collapse is a pretty frightening experience but Alan
recovers quite quickly and Marlon brings him home after a couple
of days,” says Richard.

“Steph is clearly more worried about her inheritance, but
Marlon tells Alan how worried his granddaughter Tricia is about him.

“Alan remarks that compassion must have skipped a generation
in his family and tells Steph straight out that she has already had
more than enough money from him.

“Alan knows his daughter well enough to realise she is a complete
stranger to hard work,” adds Richard. “And he is delighted
when she is cornered into taking a job working for Pollard at the
factory. Maybe that’ll keep her out of mischief for a while
- but I doubt it.”

Ever since the revelation that dad Alan Turner left her out of his
will, Steph has been trying to reform her image.

The prime motivation of her plan is to convince her ailing dad that
she is responsible adult that he wants her to be and not an overgrown
kid who thinks the world owes her favours.

And by taking a job at Alan Turner's factory, Steph hoped to prove
that her attitude had improved and that she could hold down a job.

But the one time bad girl is having trouble retraining her wayward
tenancies. After using her feminine wiles to charm the socks off boss
Eric Pollard, Steph decides to treat her fellow workers to a cruel
but hilarious impression of their unsuspecting employer.

But will her satire come back to haunt her as she struggles to make
her new persona believable?

ITV.COM The Stokes - Is This It?

Thursday | 15.01.04

Emmerdale's Steph Stokes is going through hell after losing Tricia.

The bereaved mother is struggling to get on with life as she faces the prospect
of never seeing her beautiful daughter again.

Thanks to her own selfishness, Steph and Tricia never had the strong mother
and daughter bond shared by many other families. But after Steph decided to
follow her offspring to the Dales, they formed a good friendship.

But Tricia's horrific death after suffering the full force of the New Year's
Eve storm, has robbed poor Steph of the one person she really loved and she
is finding the loss hard to bear.

However, everyone is far more focused on the anguish of Tricia's heartbroken
husband Marlon, who has fallen to pieces in the wake of the tragedy. And since
funeral arrangements are being taken care of by him, Steph feels she has no
say in her daughter's farewell.

This week she is horrified when Marlon invites Tricia's boss Diane Blackstock
to talk at her funeral and wonders if anyone has given her a second thought.

Will Tricia's nearest and dearest realise the suffering poor Steph is going
through?